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  • What's your memory of HMV?

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  • I was about 15 and queued up for hours to get tickets for me and my mate to see Nirvana. I think they were about £13.50 each and then £1.50 ticket fee. Between then and the concert Kurt Cobain killed himself. I marched right back to HMV and got my £13.50 back. 🤦

    Imagine how awesome it would be to own one of the few, complete, tickets for a Nirvana concert that never happened.

  • hol up

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  • This is funny, but would be more accurate if it said "MAGA Christians" instead of "White Christians".

    I'm an atheist and most of the Christians I know are pretty accepting. It's almost as if they respect the teachings of Jesus and aspire to be more like him, unlike all too many MAGA Christians.

  • Dear Kevin

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  • Dear Kevin

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  • It's actually worse still. When I first heard it, the second B wasn't "boys". I'm Gen X and it was disgusting to hear even back then. Please don't lump us in with the boomers. A lot changed in a few short years.

  • Where there's a violence there's a way

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  • Exactly. FUD is what the opposition use to keep the revolution from happening, to prevent those who want to see change from believing it will work.

    And as for accepting others, that's another big hurdle to overcome. People need to put aside their differences to work towards a common goal, and for that there needs to be organised energetic leadership. Something else that the opposition tries to prevent.

  • Where there's a violence there's a way

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  • Does Europe Need Its Own Social Media Platforms?

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  • The way Mastodon and federated stuff works, it's a shame more organisations don't host their own Mastodon instances for their official announcements instead of Xitter and Facebook. They don't really take that much admin as only employees would need accounts to post. The BBC is trialling this I believe.

  • I bought a new teeth brush - this time from the EU!

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  • At the other end of the spectrum, Colgate sell battery powered brushes for kids with non-replaceable heads. When the head wears out you have to scrap the whole device. I wrote to Colgate (Palmolive) via their website and got a crappy canned response about how they are responsible and the environment is important to them blah blah blah.

    https://www.colgate.com/en-gb/products/toothbrush/colgate-kids-minions-extra-soft-for-0-3-years

    Edit: I know they're not European either. I just wanted to call them out for how unsustainable they are compared to some others.

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  • More hate leads to more wars, and we could do with less of those in the world. If you hate them, and brand them your enemy, you push them further away.

    Be better than them. Be stronger than them. Educate them and show them how to improve. It's harder than hating them but ultimately more productive. Hate is easy.

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  • The OP was about an email account being deleted. It said nothing about Greenland.

    I'm just trying to quell the hate speech. Hating a whole country because it's idiot leader says and does stupid things will only lead to bad things.

    Using words like "enemy" and other hateful things about various countries and groups was how Trump energised and mislead people to vote for him. By meeting it with more hate we just make it worse. Surely we are better than this? The world has enough hate already without adding to it.

    By all means, deride the actions of a madman and his puppet corporations, but to hate an entire country will just make this worse.

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  • Here's a quote with equal relevance:

    "When did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?"

    ... And by "equal relevance" I mean not at all.

    Seriously though, a corporation cancelled the account of someone who should never have been using it for official business in the first place. More reason to be less reliant on US corporate services and develop open European alternatives. But, terms like "enemy" over this? I thought we were better than that. That's MAGA level escalation and hatred.

    Let's rise above this.

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  • This seems rather extreme. Losing trust is one thing, but to call them "an enemy"?

  • If it works, it works.

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  • blender making frens

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  • I use Shotcut for video editing. Haven't seen that mentioned here yet.

  • Love your fellow humans that just want a working computer.

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  • Same here. Running NixOS on mine, and despite not being officially supported they have pretty good channels on their forums and the staff are quite active on there too.

  • Looking for a powerbank

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  • I've only done a quick web search, but Anker don't appear to be European.

  • where's my laptop tho

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  • No, but what they're saying is ... Well, it's funny because... Just shut up! Coming around here with all your LOGIC! Ruining our jokes.

  • Reminder for Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to Windows 11

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  • I guess it depends on your use case. I haven't owned a Windows PC since 2016. Linux all the way for me. The games I play run on it, the applications I need run on it, and it works well for me without tinkering getting in the way. I can even use it for work these days and I have far less VPN flakiness than both Windows and Mac colleagues.

    For my use case the year of the Linux desktop is here, and has been for a while.

  • Most successful open source operating system

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  • Richard? Is that you?